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John Yates

Press Service International

The Rev. Dr John Yates is an Anglican minister in Perth and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. He spends time in praying, mentoring and writing.John Yates’s previous articles may be viewed athttp://www.pressserviceinternational.org/john-yates.html

  • Generation Sacrifice

    Recently on TV a weight loss programme was promoted with the words, “I think it works because there’s no sacrifice.”

  • Spiritual Enterprise

    Extinction Rebellion has on their website a photo of a young protester carrying a placard, “Paradise Lost”.  There is a profound truth behind this cry for humanity’s survival, but one generally missed even by Christians.

  • Political

    Greek polis = city, hence political, “the orderly togetherness of people”

  • Lest we Forget

    “Last year we had 86 attacks (on churches).” (Godfrey Yogarajah, Sri Lanka)

  • Accusation

    Accusation has become a standard feature of life in Australia today. This is a consequence of the politicisation of everything, and perhaps an invariable result of the hyper-information age, where through social media we know too much things about the lives too many people.

  • Distressed

    I think the call of God on my life means I am in constant distress. This is not an uncommon condition in the Bible. Moses and Elijah became so disturbed by the spiritual state of Israel that they asked God to kill them

  • Australia’s Day to Fear

  • The enemy you need

    It feels bad to be disliked, but this exactly what Christians are largely lacking today. I once ran into an old Christian friend who I hadn’t seen for some years. He soon told me he was suffering grief from being betrayed by a couple of co-workers who had been as close to him as his own children.

  • Depth

    I’ve just come back from Kalbarri, a popular holiday spot about 500km north of Perth.

  • Listening Together

    Early in my pastoral career I would ask parishioners, “How is your prayer life?” The standard response was, “I could be praying more.” I no longer ask this question, having learned that it’s quite useless to urge people to pray. Prayerlessness is merely a symptom of something far deeper, and unless this root is dealt with no amount of information or exhortation to pray will heal the problem. So let’s start by looking at why Jesus prayed.